Skills policies and systems: Publications

2009
- A guide to worker displacement : some tools for reducing the impact on workers, communities and enterprises. Update March 2009 - [pdf 858 KB]
  01 March 2009 - The Guide presents possible strategies for averting layoffs and promoting business retention by communities, enterprise managements and workers’ associations. A discussion of early warning networks is also presented, stressing the importance of monitoring and rapid response mechanisms such as retraining to ensure worker adjustment and economic renewal. (Book)
2008
- Conclusions on skills for improved productivity, employment growth and development - [pdf 207 KB]
  13 June 2008 - International Labour Conference, 2008 (Report)
- Skills development for industrial clusters : a preliminary review - [pdf 364 KB]
  16 January 2008 - Employment Working Paper No. 8 (Working paper)
- Skills, Productivity and Employment Growth: The case of Latin America - [pdf 517 KB]
  01 January 2008 - (Book)
- Challenging the myths about learning and training in small and medium-sized enterprises : implications for public policy? - [pdf 551 KB]
  01 January 2008 - Employment Working Paper No. 1 (Working paper)
2007
- 3-4 May 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
  Apprenticeship in the informal economy in Africa Workshop report Geneva, 3-4 May 2007 - [pdf 476 KB]
  04 May 2007 - Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 1 (Report)
2005
- Key competencies and lifelong learning - Buy now
  29 April 2005 - This book is an initial effort towards systematising experiences involving the application and development of new training approaches. It presents a systematic approach from three perspectives. ... (Book)
- National qualifications frameworks : their feasibility for effective implementation in developing countries - [pdf 313 KB]
  01 February 2005 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 22 (Working paper)
- Recognition of prior learning policy and practice for skills learned at work : Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, United States - [pdf 517 KB]
  01 January 2005 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 21 (Working paper)
2003
- Statistics on investment in training : an assessment of data available and cross-country comparability - [pdf 320 KB]
  01 September 2003 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 20 (Working paper)
- Lifelong learning : potential and constraints with special reference to policies in the United Kingdom and Europe - [pdf 264 KB]
  01 August 2003 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 15 (Working paper)
2002
- Statistics on investment in training : an assessment of their availability - [pdf 212 KB]
  01 October 2002 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 18 (Working paper)
- Financing training : innovative approaches in Latin America - [pdf 421 KB]
  01 July 2002 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 12 (Working paper)
- Supporting workplace learning for high performance working - Buy now
  11 June 2002 - Explores workplace learning as a means of enhancing both work performance and the quality of working life. Identifies characteristics of high performance work organizations, considers the implementation of high performance work practices and investigates how far these practices are embedded in different countries. ... (Book)
- Modernization in vocational education and training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region - [pdf 306 KB]
  15 February 2002 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 4 (Working paper)
- Learning and training for work in the knowledge society. Report 91 IV (1) - Buy now
  04 February 2002 - Explores contemporary trends in human resources development and training. Examines the shift towards economies and societies that increasingly rely on human knowledge and skills in producing goods and services and reviews the new objectives of education and training. ... (Book)
- Training policies and programmes : learning and training for high performance in Asia and the Pacific - [pdf 251 KB]
  01 February 2002 - EMP/SKILLS Working Paper No. 6 (Working paper)
2000
- Managing vocational training systems - Buy now
  18 January 2000 - Provides state-of-art materials relating to the management and organization of public vocational education and training (VET) systems and suggests a framework for developing the management competence of senior VET administrators encouraging them to review critically their administrative practices in order to move towards professional excellence. ... (Book)